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Harry Potter and the Decline of Literary Civilization
Is Harry Potter Dreadful, and does his popularity signify the end of literary civilization?
Chris Clarke linked to this piece, by Matthew Yglesias, about someone who wrote that people who read Harry Potter never read any real novels, and which -- the Yglesias piece, I mean -- had a long tail of comments. I found it all very odd. You see, the problem, for me, is that I'm far more snobbish and old fashioned than the person who didn't like Harry Potter. I don't think novels are high literature at all. To me the people fretting about Harry displacing real novels are just as off-track as the people who think that Harry Potter is as good as literature ever gets.
I enjoy novels enormously. But the novel is simply not a very important part of literature. It's been hugely, hugely popular for about a century and a half, and for a rather shorter time it's been taken seriously in universities. Of course I like them. For the same reasons you do. Because we share this odd historical moment. But that doesn't make them important.
Some novels are good. Some of them are thoughtful. Some are enthralling. But storytelling, though a fine and venerable craft, is not, to my mind, an art. Poetry is an art. I'm sure people will still be reading poetry five hundred years from now. Will they still be reading novels? I doubt it. Novel-reading is a peculiar activity, taken in a wide historical context, and literary novel-reading is more peculiar still.
I admit that I find "literary" novels -- the ones written since the 1920's or so, in conscious hopes of achieving literary immortality -- ridiculous and unreadable. I haven't read one in years: to me they're a waste of time. Even when they're mercifully short, they're horribly long winded and pompous, portentous and solemn, nervously clutching at a high seriousness that they can't quite keep hold of. Some people enjoy reading them, or do read them anyway, and I wish them godspeed. I'm not going to join them though.
I like the Harry Potter books a lot. I think they're a good series of novels. I don't think they're the modern equivalent of Aeschylus. But then, I don't think Don DeLillo -- or whoever we're supposed to take seriously nowadays; as I've already admitted, I don't read the stuff -- is the modern equivalent of Aeschylus either. I much prefer reading Harry Potter, because Rowling is not under the delusion that she's Aeschylus. She's a storyteller, and she sits comfortably in the storyteller's chair. I think that's nice. I like it.
High literature has, to me, one unmistakeable marker. You would memorize it, if you had the time, and not find it tedious to do so. It has that intensity, that richness of meaning and beauty of sound, that you're willing to etch it into your synapses. Nobody, I hope, is going to memorize the Harry Potter novels. No one is going to memorize Don DeLillo either. They're simply not worth it. Read and reread them, sure. Go to them for comfort and instruction. (I'm sure people do that with DeLillo, even if my imagination can't quite make the leap to picturing it.)
Five hundred years from now, should our species get so far, people are still going to be memorizing Aeschylus, Li Po, and Shakespeare. They will not even be reading Rowling or DeLillo. Or Conrad or Dickens, for that matter, unless they're scholars or antiquarians. Novels are ephemeral.
That doesn't make them worthless. And of course in a larger sense, all literature -- and the one species we know of that produces it -- is ephemeral. That's worth remembering too. So let's not get too het up about it all. Even high literature is not that important.
Well. I don't believe all that. Oh, I believe that the novel is a minor form and that its current vogue will pass. But the "high literature" and "art" stuff? Nah. It's just fun to get up above someone who thinks they've taken the high ground and take a few potshots.
Real novels are, and always have been, popular, longwinded, repetitive, and meandering. It's the genius of the form. I am entirely with C.S. Lewis, who snorted, "who ever bothered about style in a novel, until all else was lost?" Sure, you can write a concise novel with style coming out its ears, and excite critics into using words like "lapidary," and keep pulling the reader up short by leaving out the usual repetitions and redundancy of storytelling. But you haven't written a novel, really -- you've pulled off a party trick.
I like the Harry Potter novels. The theme of them is that it's better to be kind than nasty. It's a perfectly good theme -- it's the theme of most of Dickens's best novels -- and I'm a little bewildered by the dislike they seem to inspire, even in some people that I know to be very kindly. They're not challenging novels, for the most part -- they don't put you through a moral or intellectual wringer, if you're well-read, anyway -- but Rowling has in spades what most modern novelists lack: invention. She's very like Dickens, who was also defiantly lowbrow, stole plots and characters anywhere he could find them, and pandered shamelessly to the crowd. Both of them, you have the feeling, could go on pulling rabbits out of their hats indefinitely. An infinite wealth of throwaway character and incident. It's the sheer abundance that delights. They are, in every best sense of a much-abused word, liberal.
The Disconsolate Chimaera
The handlebars on my bicycle came loose again. Politely -- they just shifted a bit, giving me plenty of warning. But by the time I got to Tosi's, though, they were moving pretty freely. It's interesting to ride without putting any weight on the handlebars -- the brakes and gearshift are on the bars, so I have to squeeze and turn them, while keeping the vector sum of all the force I apply to the bars at zero. It's entertaining, though it would be more entertaining if I didn't know that an abrupt emergency would certainly make me lose control of the bike. It's fine to ride no-hands; we did it all the time as kids. But dodging, swerving, evading...? No. I think I should take it into the shop and have them bolt the bars (and the seat) where I want them. I know where that is, now. They don't need to be adjustable any more.
I love this bicycle: it's the tangible sign of my freedom. My equivalent of the midlife-crisis crimson sports car.
Yesterday was the one of the first real resurrections of discontent. It should have been the perfect day: a practice session with Lana, trying to incorporate the rudiments of shiatsu and tui na, and then a lovely massage from Tele. But Lana talked the whole time I was working on her, friendly conversation; I wondered toward the end if I were really still working on her, or if it was just a pretense to open up the space for talking. And Tele seemed faintly uncomfortable, and ready to be gone at the end. I was left feeling a little mournful. Though I would have said, a year ago, that this was all I wanted in the world -- this kind of touch, this intimacy, this trust.
They're too young to be entirely easy friends: there's always a problem of translation. The world you inhabit at thirty is different from the world you inhabit at fifty. And coming of age in the nineties left different marks from the marks left by coming of age in the seventies. Vocabularies shift subtly. The dominant preoccupations, with which or against which we framed our identities, were different.
But that's just "the presenting problem," as I believe psychologists call it. The pretext for dissatisfaction. The real problem is that achieving this -- getting what is, supposedly, all I want -- didn't change anything drastically. I still ache, I still want. There's still an empty space that won't be filled. I'm old enough not to have expected that it would be -- consciously -- but unconsciously I did, and I found myself vaguely resentful and petulant. Spiritual longings are not to be satisfied by the pleasures of the world; not even by the pleasures of touch and friendship. But it's so easy to let myself be washed into the current of believing they will be. It runs strong. Lots of people want me to believe it, desperately, because it will help them believe in its possibility too.
Never enough. "Nothing touches the tired spot," as Lincoln said. It's palpable to me sometimes, the desire that you have for me to have achieved a life in which the world makes me content. In which the tired spot is rubbed away by magically good massage. And I know that from time to time I have pandered to that desire, teased it up, suggested or implied that it was so, could be so, was about to be so. I me me mine --
The crying shadow in the funeral dance,
The loud lament of the disconsolate chimaera.
"That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was," Ron mumbled.
"Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was," said Harry. "I've been trying to tell you that for years."
Every bone in my body is broken, and newly set: I feel that fragile. But whole.
Grief, like a benediction.
I can't even guess why I have been so blessed.
Seriously cute, yes. But the maniacal gleam in her eye is no trick of the light. First, last, and always a predator. This is our foster-kitty.
Posted on the Bathroom Mirror this Morning
"We think of it as a system," said Dr Terence Cloth, of the BMRC at the University of Minnesota. "It's a group dynamic, really. Often you'll have one family member -- you know, supposedly well -- who'll be picking a wet bathmat up of the floor three, four, five times a day. Enabling. It's sad, really -- they think they're helping, but of course they're just perpetuating the cycle."
There is hope, adds Dr Cloth. "At the Bathmat Rehabilitation Center we've had significant results from negative feedback training. What in layman's terms you might call 'whoppin 'em upside the head.'"
Researchers at the Dry Foot Clinic in New York City, however, which also treats the disease, take a different approach. According to Dr Tinea Pedis, "We're finding two lines of research promising. The fundamental theoretical problem of Bathmat Neglect is, why does it happen at all? After all, what could be easier than picking a bathmat off the floor and hanging it up? One line of research suggests that the underlying cause is a fear of completion. The patient doesn't want to admit that he's done getting ready for the day, so he puts off hanging up the mat, and puts it off, and puts it off, until he's late for work and rushes from the room -- leaving the bathmat on the floor, of course. We've developed some excellent mindfulness techniques that seem to help with this.
"The other line of research has to do with perception. Some people, we hypothesize, are so accustomed to having the mat on the floor that they quite literally don't see it. We ran an elegant little experiment in which people leaving the bathroom were interviewed about its contents: a surprising percentage showed no awareness of the bathmat at all." Her colleague, Dr Srinivas Fungal, is experimenting with helmets that force patients' heads forward, so that they look always at the floor. "So far," he admits, "patients don't seem to like to use them."
The Wanderer (complete)
Often a friendless man must wait it out for favor,
The Measurer's mercy, although, troubled in mind,
He must for a long while, over the water,
Stir with his hands the frost-cold sea,
Wander in exile: Wyrd has all been spoken.
So said the earth-stepper, remembering hardships,
And the fall of his family
In savage slaughter.
Often I have told my trouble to the dawn;
There is no living creature now
That I can talk to freely. I know for a fact
It is a better habit to keep your heart's cage locked --
To keep your mind's wallet closed -- think what you will.
A worn out heart cannot withstand Wyrd
And a disordered mind mends nothing.
Someone who wants to be thought well of
Binds his unhappiness up tight in his breast.
So I have hidden my heart-spirit
Miserable with care, cut off from home,
Far from my family, bound in fetters;
Since I wrapped my gold-friend, years ago,
In the darkness of earth, and I, abject,
Went from there, winter-troubled,
Over the lacing waves, looking, hall-sick,
For where I might find, far or near,
A master in a mead hall
Who knew of me and mine,
Or who would comfort a man of no kindred,
Welcome him warmly. Wise men know
How cruel a companion sorrow is
For a man meager in patrons.
He is attended by exile, not golden armrings;
A frozen heart-cage, not the flowering earth.
He remembers hall-friends and receiving treasure;
How in his young days his gold-friend
Accustomed him to feasting: all joy fails.
A man who must long forgo his friend-lord's counsel
When sorrow and sleep
Both together bind him
He imagines he embraces his lord
Holds him and kisses him, lays hands and head
On his knee, as he used to, years of days ago,
When his lord still gave gifts from the throne.
Then the friendless warrior wakes again
Sees before him the fallow waves,
The sea-birds swimming and spreading their feathers
Snow and frost, and falling hail.
Then his heart-wounds are the heavier,
Yearning for the beloved. Longing is renewed
When the memory of kinsmen runs through his mind;
He meets with song-staves, eagerly searches for
The faces of hall-friends. They swim far away;
The fleeting spirits will not speak.
Sorrow is renewed when a man often sends
His weary mind over the lacing waves.
I can't tell why, wandering this world,
My mind does not darken. I think of the lives of men:
How suddenly bold men leave the board;
How this middle earth, every day,
Withers and fails. No man becomes wise
Without a share of winters, in this world's dominion.
A thoughtful man must bide his time: he cannot be
Too hot-hearted or too hasty with words,
Too timid, too rash, too greedy for goods,
Nor too quick to boast, unless he knows best.
Before he promises, let him pause
Until he knows the turn
Of other men's hearts.
A man with eyes will understand
How ghostly it will be when the good
Of the world is all laid waste;
As now here and there, throughout this earth,
Walls stand, swept by the wind,
Frost-white, the courts frozen,
The mead-halls crumbling, their masters lying
Far from the feast; all of them fallen
Proud by the door-posts.
All borne away. Some have been taken in war;
Some, scavenger-birds have scattered
Over the high sea; some the pale wolf
Has shared out with death; some, blood-dabbled,
Have been hidden by friends in scrapes of earth.
The One who made the generations of men
Emptied this earthyard, until --
The noise of its townsmen stopped --
Its old giants' work stood idle.
So a man who thinks through it all --
This dark life, this deep-laid wall --
Wise-minded, he remembers
War's slaughter, and speaks these words:
Where is the horse? Where is the rider?
Where is the giver of treasure?
Where are the places at the feast?
Where are the pleasures of the hall?
Ea-la, the bright cup! Ea-la, the burnished warrior!
Ea-la, the prince's glory! How the time departs,
Darkens under the helmet of night, as if it had never been!
The warriors have been carried away
By the ash-wood's power,
By death-greedy weapons, by Wyrd in its glory;
And these stone cliffs are beaten by storms.
Frost settles, and grips the ground,
Declaring winter. The dark comes,
The night-shadow darkens; it sends from the North
Raw hail against raised faces.
Everything is earned with pain
In this earth's kingdom; below heaven
It is Wyrd that turns this world.
Brief the time of having, brief the time of home,
Brief the time of family, brief the time of friends.
All the works of this world lose their worth.
So he said to himself, sitting apart in thought:
Well for him who keeps faith, and doesn't uncover too soon
What's deep in his heart, till he knows what to do,
How to mend matters; well for him who looks for mercy --
For our only solid ground --
for the grace of our Father in heaven.
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The Wanderer (V)
Here is the end of the poem. Spears were made of ash-wood, and ash-trees are emblematic of fate in Germanic mythology; the poet is drawing liberally on both his cultural traditions, both of which emphasize the shortness and fragility of life in this world.
Paris is worth a Mass
For class I'm supposed to write about my responses to learning the theory of Traditional Asian Medicine. They're all over the map.
First of all, I love it, just as a new system to learn -- lots of complicated interlocking parts, a new nomenclature. The same hunger for new intelligibilities that drives me always to be studying new languages and new computer systems eats this right up. And there's the fascination (which it has in common with languages) of feeling my way into a set of cultural assumptions, mental habits, and protocols. Trying to think my way into a mind that feels that concepts as disparate (to me) as wood, fire, and earth have the same taxonomic status. I love that sort of thing.
There's the frustration of having to rely on translators and interpretors, of unknown reliability, which always frustrates me. I spent a year or two studying Chinese, but it completely defeated me; now I remember only a handful of words, a character or two. I won't be learning Chinese in this lifetime. So everything that comes to me is already filtered and shifted by at least one or two -- probably more like a dozen -- Western intermediaries. The little shifts and transformations they've made will be invisible to me.
I find the symmetry and regularity of the system deeply satisfying, but deeply suspicious. Suspicious precisely because it's satisfying: I can't help thinking that some of these elaborate correspondences will have been filled in simply to make the sets complete. Human beings work that way. Our minds leap to perceive patterns, and often enough the patterns they seize upon aren't really there, or aren't as complete and regular as we perceive them to be.
(The meridians, the "energy channels," by the way, are reassuringly quirky and unexpected; nobody trying for an elegant system would invent all these queer jogs and backtracks, oddities like the bifurcation of the Bladder Meridian on the back or the Kidney meridian's little twirl below the ankle. These have the continually surprising shape of reality.)
As a long-time Buddhist I have some philosophical problems with the principles (which I'll sloppily call "Taoist") underlying much of Chinese medicine -- the conceptions of qi, yin, and yang. Taoism views Nature as aligned and balanced, and civilized man as out of whack and unbalanced, which is a dualism, to my mind, just as ill-considered and pernicious as the Cartesian dualism of mind and body. And the emotional equanimity championed by Taoists doesn't satisfy me. I'm after ecstasy, more than tranquility.
I have no problems with the fact that qi is not, for the most part, directly measurable. And my only problem with the conception of the self implicit in this system is the age-old dispute about whether the self, the individual atman, is a permutation of a greater atman (God's) or delusion pure and simple. (I tend to go with delusion.)
The scientific unverifiability of much of this theory (not of much of this practice, which has a good track record) bothers me only because systematic theories that aren't subject to some sort of rigorous verification tend to turn into ratifications of what people already think is true. I don't care whether the verification is scientific, or by way of a rigorous meditative or yogic discipline, but without disciplined verification, what you generally get is wish-fulfillment fantasies. So I view the enthusiasm of some of my fellow-students with some skepticism.
I guess the bottom line for me is experiential. I don't need to believe that the theory is correct. I don't, after all, believe that the scientific materialist theory of reality is correct either, but I use it and its insights all the time. What I know is that someone trained within this framework can give a massage much more powerful and effective than anything I can usually do, at present. I want that. As that Protestant contender for the French throne (Henri of Navarre?) said, on adopting Catholicism, "Paris is worth a mass."
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The Wanderer (IV)
Here follows the passage that is, rightfully, the most famous ubi sunt in Old English poetry. Tolkien rewrote a version of it, a very good one, as a sample of the poetry of the Riders of Rohan, and thence, altered again, it actually appeared on the lips of Theoden in the Jackson Lord of the Rings movie -- the only bit of Old English poetry, that I know of, ever to have reached a mass audience.
Where are the places at the feast? Where are the pleasures of the hall?
Difficulties for the translator abound. First of all: hwaer com mearh? is not exactly "where is the horse?" It is not even "where has the horse gone?" Literally it's "where came horse?" Maybe I'm being too finicky, but it seems to me of great importance that the speaker actually locates himself in the same place as all these lost things -- they haven't gone away from him, they have come to the same place he has -- the place of ruin and loss. I was tempted to try "where has the horse come to?" or even "what has the horse come to?" and I might have gone with it, except that the question is repeated twice, with different subjects, and what is iffy once becomes emphatically ridiculous three times in a row. Tolkien's solution is the neatest and most economical, I think -- dropping the question of coming and going altogether, and saying simply "where is the horse?" (I don't know, by the way, that Tolkien invented this solution, only that he used it. I'm deliberately avoiding other translations till I'm done.)
The other thing that defeated me was the alliteration. All three subjects in the first two lines of the ubi sunt alliterate, in the Old English -- mearh, magu, mathum-giefa -- mare, man, and mathom-giver -- and it's important that they should do so. But I could not for the life of me come up with three plain but suitable words that would alliterate in Modern English, and here of all places the diction needed to be simple, clean, straightforward. So I surrendered, I hope gracefully. The first two lines alliterate, if you can call it that, on nothing but the repetition of "where?"
Then there's "ea-la!" (the "ea" is a diphthong, a long 'a' sliding into 'aw'.) Most people translate it as "alas!" but I couldn't bring myself to do that. It's accurate enough, and etymologically correct, but its associations are disastrous. Love-sick swains, Romeos, and Ophelias say "alas!" -- not hardbitten soldiers. Since it has no real semantic content, I decided it didn't need to be translated at all, that it wouldn't hurt anyone to have to learn the sound, in Old English, of inarticulate grief.
In the Oven
A cloud cover of remote silver scales, heavy with the impending heat of the day; already there's a dusky shadow in the air. A couple of fat raindrops struck my face as I rode my bike here, but that's all we'll get, I think. It will be another day in the sky's oven. It is not so much that I mind the heat, as that I mind seeing Oregon gasping this way. East Texas is supposed to be like this, not the Willamette Valley.
Dress rehearsal for clinic last night. Next week I'll have my first-ever paying clients. Last year at this time I was still working, or rather not working, in my cubicle in Beaverton. That seems a very very long time ago. Although it also seems like I just started massage school -- that I can't possibly be in my last quarter.
My last class, besides Clinic, is "Survey of Modalities" ("modalities" being the odd and highfalutin, though standard, name for different kinds of massage; I guess "Survey of Sorts" struck someone as falling short of the high dignity of our calling.) It has no prerequisites, so there are some beginning students in it, people who aren't used to whipping the sheets on and off a table and matter-of-factly shedding clothes, and who are still stumbling over "coracoid process," confusing it with "coronoid process," or even coming up with the enchanting "congoloid process," which really ought to be the name of something. I'm so used to feeling like a raw beginner in this that to feel like an old hand is somehow unpleasant -- distancing. I have loved this so deeply, being a student again. A student is what I am, always have been, always will be; I love learning new things. I'm so grateful to have had this chance to be what I am again, for a lovely luminous year.
The Wanderer (III)
Giants. What to do with the giants? Giants to us are irresistably fairy-tale and comic -- since we don't believe in them -- and their presence here can only mystify most modern readers, who can't be expected to know that any impressive stonework of forgotten origin was assumed by the Anglo-Saxons to be the work of giants -- a race struck down by God, ages ago, for their pride and presumption. It is not the first time, that is to say, that God has depopulated this place. At first I tried just leaving the giants out, and no doubt if I had been able to settle on a good line about ancient ruins standing empty I would have done so.
I have to confess that the warriors of this deserted place did not really fall proud by the door-posts. They fell proud by the wall -- wlanc be wealle, one of my favorite formulas of Old English verse. Though to tell the truth though I'm not quite sure what falling proud by the wall means -- possibly it connotes last-ditch struggle -- backs against the wall -- fighting to the last man. But anyway, Modern English has no initial 'wl' sound, more's the pity, and it has no word for pride that I could think of that begins even with plain 'w', and there are already too many "walls" in this section of the poem for my taste -- and more to come -- so I made them fall by the door, with posts to alliterate with proud. (Plus I've always loved the compound "door-post" -- I don't know why. If I were a scholar I couldn't do this, but I'm a massage therapist, and I can do whatever I like.)
The Wanderer (II)
The lacing waves is the best I can do for wathuma gebind, literally "the binding of the waves." The image is clear to me -- the way that, after staring at the sea for a long time, you see the waves start to form interweaving patterns, to tie knots in the water. But I didn't like "binding," which has for me its chief connotations with ski technology. I like the sound of "lacing," but it loses an important resonance with the overriding images of constriction and imprisonment. I've played with words for tangling and snaring and knitting and knotting and tying, but nothing has quite come together.
I cheat sometimes with the alliteration. Here are the rules of alliteration, in brief:
The first sounds of stressed syllables are the only candidates for it. In the first half-line one or both of the two most heavily stressed syllables must begin with the same sound; in the second half-line the first heavily stressed syllable must begin with that sound, and the second must not. My rules have been more lax: I have only required that at least one heavily stressed syllable in each half-line alliterate, and I often alliterate on the second stressed syllable of the second half-line.
What is "the same sound"? In old english, 'sp' and 'st' are their own sounds, and can only rhyme with themselves, not with any old initial 's'. Otherwise things are pretty much as you'd expect, except that any initial vowel rhymes with any other initial vowel -- the absence of a consonant, at the start of a stressed syllable, is perceived, you might say, as a particular sound. Hence my lines such as "He is attended by exile, not golden armrings," where the alliteration is on Exile and Armrings. I have extended this un-consonant to include 'h', since the Modern English 'h' has dwindled from its former throat-clearing rasp to a barely-there aspiration; hence "Of other men's hearts," where I mean Other to alliterate with Hearts. I've taken a few other liberties that an Old English poet would not have allowed himself -- in "He imagines he embraces his lord," for instance, I allowed iMagine to alliterate with emBrace, because to my ear the 'b' in embrace, smothered between its 'm' and 'r', is nearly the same sound as the strong 'm' of imagine. And for me 's' alliterates with 'sp' and 'st', if it has to. Cynewulf would shudder.
The Wanderer (I)
At the beach I got maybe halfway through translating The Wanderer, an Old English poem from the 10th Century or thereabouts. Since I reckon most people would prefer to get it in bite-size pieces, if at all, I'll post as I go along, with comments as I please. It's about five pages long. Below is first installment.
Translating Old English alliterative poetry into Modern English alliterative poetry is relatively easy. Sometimes the alliteration can be lifted wholesale from the original: vowels shift around a lot more than consonants, over the centuries, and usually one or more of the heavily-stressed, alliterating words that carry the heaviest charge of meaning in a line has a direct descendant to build a Modern English line around. Alliteration in any case is far easier than rhyme in any Germanic language.
The difficulty is in capturing the rhythm. Modern English, having lost most of its inflections, is afflicted with a swelling rash of articles and prepositions, little unstressed words that we can't do without -- and keep a remotely natural-sounding diction -- but which wreck the pattern of Old English sound. The usual rhythm of Old English goes BOM bom BOM bom BOM bom BOM bom; the usual rhythm of Modern English is more like bom BOM bom bom BOM bom bom BOM bom. The brilliant effects of iambic pentameter are founded on the interplay between the theoretical five stressed syllables of a line and the actual two or three that Modern English supplies. I have found it difficult to break the pentameter habit, but it seems critical to me, to catch even a ghost of the Old English, to have two strong stresses in each half-line, with a strong caesura in between. The problem is that this bloats the line. I've switched back and forth several times between breaking my "long alliterative line" into two lines -- which feels a little juvenile and jerky -- and keeping lines that feel a little too long. (The solution that immediately occurred to me, of course, was to adopt William Blake's magnificent fourteeners; but this was a disaster. Its rhythm is even further away from that of Old English verse, very Miltonic, very latinate. No go.)
What I found myself doing was occasionally falling into a "hypometric" couplet or two -- lines with only two major stresses -- but keeping for the most part the basic form of "four stresses with a hole in the middle" that Seamus Heaney used for his translation of Beowulf. I have a feeble excuse for this variation: something like it occurs, if not very often, in Old English poetry -- isolated so-called "half-lines," with double alliteration. More common are "hypermetric" lines -- in which each half-line has three heavy stresses, rather than two -- when it wants to slow down and become graver: the last five lines of The Wanderer are in "hypermetric" verse. That's not really a valid precedent. Really I'm just following George Orwell's rhetorical dictum, that one should break any rule rather than say something downright barbarous.
The real rhythm of Old English verse is simply not reproducible in Modern English: it has to do with how two long, stressed syllables crowd each other or back away from each other within the half-line. Maybe I'll take Rachel's suggestion and try to produce an audio file of The Wanderer in the original, so you can hear it. I know of nothing like it in the modern poetry of romance or germanic languages.
Here is the beginning of The Wanderer:
Metod, "the Measurer," is the old Pagan name for personified Fate (Old English "Wyrd"), adopted easily, here, into an epithet for the Christian God. Anglo-Saxon England was remarkable for the smoothness of its transition to Christianity -- it was fortunate in its missionaries, who were broadminded, tactful men, more inclined to assimilate Pagan thought and practice than to challenge it. Early scholars of Old English, who were eager to reconstruct a Pagan past, and who had a Protestant prejudice against the medieval Church, tended to see, in poems such as this one, Pagans pretending to be Christian. In the last generation or two a more sophisticated understanding has developed, which sees this Christianity as deep and sincere, though certainly colored by the Pagan understanding of fate.
The shift from third person into first person is as unexpected in the original as it looks here. Translators sometimes deal with it by putting quotation marks at the beginning of the poem, but then you have to decide where they end, and where they begin again, and so on; the first person speaker seems to come in and out of focus throughout the poem. The effect to me is dreamlike and satisfying; I feel no particular need to sort out narrators and tidily assign speeches to them.
"Gold-friend" means king, liege-lord -- an Anglo-Saxon king traditionally rewarded his thanes according to their bravery in battle, typically with gold arm-rings (though it might be anything -- horses, land, anything valuable). The relationship between lord and thane was an intense one, even a passionate one. Becoming lordless is generally the worst calamity an Old English poet can imagine.
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Founded in 1939 the Cancer Home is staffed by the Hawthorne Dominican Sisters, and is dedicated to the care of terminal cancer patients. The facility is open to those who cannot afford to pay for care, and most of the patients are not Catholic.
The current home was built in 1970, a two-story brick building designed specifically for this mission.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home is one of seven free cancer homes operated by the Hawthorne Dominican Sisters. The home is supported by the generosity of a sympathetic public. Donations large and small from groups and individuals have provided the necessary funds from the very beginning. When Rose Hawthorne Lathrop began this labor of love in 1896, she said it was to be God's work. The sisters placed their trust in the loving providence of God and that trust has never failed.


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Q: How to run nodejs inside container correctly? I have docker image that consist of nginx to server my index.html file with the following config:
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name mysite;
  root /var/www/application;
  index index.html;
}

No I need to add nodejs to handle /api/ location just like the following:
upstream api_node_js {
   server  127.0.0.1:3000;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name mysite;
  root /var/www/application;
  index index.html;
}

location /api {
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

    rewrite ^/api/?(.*) /$1 break;

    proxy_pass http://api_node_js;
    proxy_redirect off;
}

So I need to install and run NodeJS server on 3000 to handle api requests. My question is how should I run it correctly?
I've already tried add running via forever with the following command in my Dockerfile:
WORKDIR /var/www/application
CMD ["forever", "start", "server.js"]

But unfortunately after starting of container it immediately exited now with no errors.
Please help me what I'm doing wrong?

A: While @ilyapt is right, and you should separate the nginx and node into two containers, this is not the answer to your question. What you should do is omit the start from your docker cmd, to prevent forever from running in the background - causing the container to exit.
Try changing your last line in the dockerfile to this - CMD ["forever", "server.js"] and see if it helps.

A: Really way to correctly run is run nginx and node.js in separated containers. Docker is a platform to isolate applications from one another and it run one application in foreground and control only this application.
Start more one applications in one container is possible but this is bad idea.

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Lifestyles of the rich and famous independent software developer
By Leander Kahney • 6:00 am, June 9, 2014
DigiDNA COO Victor Broido is living the dream -- and talking it up at AltConf 2014. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac
SAN FRANCISCO — Victor Broido has an enviable lifestyle. He lives and works 200 yards from a sun-kissed beach. He often kitesurfs before work. Sometimes he surfs during work.
"It was my dream, as a kid, to surf for an hour before going to the office," Broido said. "That's my life. It's happening right now."
You might want to punch Broido in the face upon hearing this, but he's the nicest, most self-deprecating guy. You can't begrudge him anything. Plus, he worked to attain this way of life.
Broido and his colleagues run DigiDNA, an eight-person company based in Geneva, Switzerland, with a satellite office in Geraldton, a small city in remote Western Australia with a reputation for world-class water sports.
DigiDNA is one of thousands of small, independent software developers spawned by the mobile revolution. In 2013, Apple's App Store revenues topped $10 billion, and a lot of that money flowed to small startups. There are small indies in every category, from games to databases. Lots of them flocked to San Francisco last week for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. DigiDNA was a gold sponsor of last week's AltConf, the alternative conference that ran parallel to Apple's event. (DigiDNA has also sponsored Cult of Mac's Cultcast in the past.)
Photographs from Victor Broido's Instagram feed offer a glimpse of the good life.
It's not often you nearly get eaten by a shark on a company off-site. When DigiDNA's cofounder and CTO Jérôme Bédat went swimming with his coworkers, he was the only one without flippers. So when the shark showed up, his workmates took off as he swam frantically behind them.
"Yeah, I left him," laughed Broido. "I thought, 'We're both dead — but he's going to be first.' Afterwards I told him I was going to get the harpoon gun on the boat and save him. But I don't think I could have."
Luckily, no one got eaten. "I wasn't so scared," said Bédat, also laughing. "It wasn't a very big shark. It would have been like getting bitten by a dog." Right. It's a good thing he wasn't eaten, Bédat is the "coding genius" behind all the company's products, Broido says.
DigiDNA's principals go on a pilgrimage to Apple HQ: CTO Jérôme Bédat, COO Victor Broido and CEO Michael Fuhrmann.
DigiDNA holds two off-sites a year, one in Australia and the other in Switzerland, where Bédat is based.
The company's other cofounder and CEO, Michael Fuhrmann, also lives in Geraldton and is another kitesurfing fanatic. Fuhrmann is the brains behind the company. He lived on the beach in a tent for two years before helping start the company. He and the other surfers wanted a way to trade music on their iPods, so the company's first product, DiskAid, was born.
The three principles — Fuhrmann, Bédat and Broido — are close, spending a lot of time working and playing together. "It's thanks to these two guys that I can be the cool surfer entrepreneur dude," says Broido. "I would probably live as a ski bum if I didn't have the chance to work with those two."
The software has earned DigiDNA a renegade reputation. DiskAid allows music to be copied off an iPod, a function Apple disabled to keep the music industry happy. Over the years, DiskAid has matured into a full-featured file-management tool for iOS devices — and file-management apps are banned from the App Store.
Broido acknowledged that the company exists a little outside the mainstream, but argues convincingly that there are lots of legitimate uses for the software. He said many doctors use DiskAid to manage files on their iPads. They need a quick and easy way to put X-rays, prescription files and spreadsheets of test results on their devices, and DiskAid does that.
He also said Apple's own Geniuses regularly recommend DiskAid to people who have lost their computers and have no backup besides what's on an iPad or iPhone.
"We are a necessary evil, because we are doing things they (Apple) won't do," Broido said.
"We're hackers and we're hackers because we love Apple," he said. "As kids, we broke down our toys to see how they were working and when Apple gave us this" — he held up his iPhone — "we broke it down because that's how we are. It's not because we are subversive, it's because that's how we are."
He lives in Geraldton with his wife and two kids. He works early in the morning and late at night (when he makes calls to Europe), but spends a lot of time in the water during the day. At night, the family often eats BBQ on the terrace.
"I was also BBQing in Switzerland," said Broido, "with a ski jacket on."
"I make a living out of a product that I love," he added. "It's the whole thing. I love Apple. I love the design … but I understand that it can't be perfect. Nothing is. So I'm trying very hard to make it better. So yeah, it's a dream. I'm living the dream. I love it."
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The design inspiration for KNOCK's new building looks to the past and lingering light industrial character of Glenwood Avenue North. The new building's tough and durable metal, concrete and glass exterior reflects the immediate context of a transforming industrial corridor. The expedient and economical vertical corrugated metal siding found on many of the local light industrial buildings is reconsidered in a more 'tailored' folded or 'pleated' zinc siding. Cast-inplace concrete is not concealed or covered but exposed and in some areas cast in a decorative pattern. The expansive areas of floor-to-ceiling glazing suggest the new creative office occupancy departing from the introverted and enclosed industrial and manufacturing facades of the recent past.


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Woody Or Buzz Lightyear Say Crossword
Buzz Lightyear, the legendary space ranger, embarks on an intergalactic adventure. He teams up with Sox and his robot companion, to help defeat the evil Zurg. In this animated adventure, children will laugh as they learn and take in the wonders of space. It's a classic film that will not disappoint. It's the perfect film for families and preschoolers alike. Lightyear is both a great space adventure movie and an insightful meditation on time. However, its relationship to Toy Story is a little vague. It's more of a film within a film rather than a satirical take on the blockbusters of the past. It's worth watching even though it doesn't have a direct connection to Toy Story.
Pixar animation fans might long for another film that includes Buzz Lightyear and Andy. Lightyear is a film that stands alone however it also features a number characters from previous Toy Story films like Zurg. The Toy Story universe has a villain named Emperor Zurg. The Emperor Zurg villain is also featured in the earlier Toy Story films and claims to be the father of Buzz Lightyear.
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Syracuse Basketball: Orange road woes continue…
Syracuse Basketball: Orange road woes continue with loss at Notre Dame
Robert Franklin — The Associated Press
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim looks on during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Notre Dame Saturday in South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame beat Syracuse 84-66.
Syracuse's Tyus Battle (25) goes up for a layup between Notre Dame's Steve Vasturia (32) and V.J. Beachem (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday in South Bend, Ind.
PUBLISHED: January 21, 2017 at 3:13 p.m. | UPDATED: July 21, 2021 at 7:16 a.m.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. >> When V.J. Beachem gets to the rim, opportunities open up for him and No. 15 Notre Dame.
Midway through the first half Saturday against Syracuse, Beachem streaked along the baseline and threw down a thunderous two-handed dunk. Next trip down the court, there was Beachem again with another flush off a nifty behind-the-back pass from Matt Farrell.
Beachem decided to take it outside from there, banging home consecutive 3-pointers in a personal 10-2 run that broke things open for the Irish in an 84-66 victory over the Orange.
Beachem finished with a career-high 30 points for Notre Dame which snapped a four-game losing streak against Syracuse.
"The drive really opens up the outside shot for me," Beachem said. "When you can get into the middle of the lane and make everybody look and collapse, that's when the outside really opens up."
Farrell added 15 points and nine assists for the Irish, who were coming off a three-point loss at No. 10 Florida State that stopped a seven-game winning streak.
"V.J. was fabulous," Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said. "When we can get him flowing like that, it's a confidence-giver to his teammates."
On an unseasonably warm January day for Northern Indiana, with temperatures in the 50s, Notre Dame (17-3, 6-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) was hot from outside, hitting 11 3-pointers against the Syracuse zone.
"We were really anxious to play against (the zone)," Beachem said. "The way we play offensively, we felt like we'd be fine against it."
Beachem tied his career high with six 3s and added seven rebounds. He finished 12 of 22 from the field and his point total was the most by an Irish player since Bonzie Colson had 31 against Duke last season.
"Beachem, we just couldn't get to him," Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. "He's a tremendous shooter and we just didn't get to him."
Despite sitting much of the first half with foul trouble, Colson still finished with 14 points and 14 rebounds for his 12th double-double of the season. Steve Vasturia added 11 points.
Tyler Lydon had 24 points and 10 rebounds for Syracuse (11-9, 3-4). Tyus Battle added 17 points and Andrew White III had 16.
"We can't win with just three guys against anybody," Boeheim said. "We have to have more guys. I can't even describe how disappointed I am in a couple guys on our team."
After being outrebounded by 20 in a loss to North Carolina on Monday, the Orange were again beaten on the boards, 39-28. Syracuse also struggled from deep, going just 6 of 19 from 3-point range.
"I think our defense was really the key today," Brey said.
Notre Dame took a 16-point lead early in the second half with a 9-0 run and led by double digits the rest of the way. Rex Pflueger's 3 with just over 4 minutes left gave the Irish their largest lead of 22 points.
Syracuse: The Orange are 0-5 on the road and have yet to beat a ranked team, after being ranked as high as No. 16 earlier in the season.
Notre Dame: The Irish have yet to lose consecutive games this season and figured out a response after dropping their first ACC game on Wednesday.
Former All-America guard David Rivers was inducted into Notre Dame's ring of honor at halftime. Rivers, who played from 1984-88, scored over 2,000 points in his career and was a first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988.
Rivers, who comes from a family of 15 children in Jersey City, NJ, nearly died in a car accident in 1986, but came back and averaged 22 points per game in his final season at Notre Dame.
Former Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps has called Rivers the best player he's ever coached.
"When I hear that, it's humbling," Rivers said before Saturday's game. "I take it as one of the greatest compliments I could ever receive, and I just move on, because I'm familiar with some of these names that are up there (in the ring of honor) already. It's just awesome company."
Following a close loss at No. 10 Florida State on Wednesday, the Irish don't figure to slide much after keeping pace with the ACC's top teams.
Syracuse: The Orange return home for two, starting with Wake Forest on Tuesday before No. 10 Florida State visits on Saturday.
Notre Dame: The Irish host three of their next four, beginning with No. 16 Virginia on Tuesday.
More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25.
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Anna is from Gig Harbor, WA, a pleasant little town facing the Pacific Ocean, near Seattle. A picky eater ("I hate coffee and... lettuce, which sounds strange to a lot of people!) and a music lover ("I listen to everything, but my favs are indie rock bands like The Strokes, The Kooks and MGMT"), Anna just did her first season in Milan, where she loved the food... "and I met Coco Rocha!". She has a great sense of humor and defines herself as "a dork".
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Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS , a Medium Risk Vulnerability
Scanning For and Finding Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Security updates on Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Disclosures related to Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Confirming the Presence of Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Exploits related to Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS is a Medium risk vulnerability that is one of the most frequently found on networks around the world. This issue has been around since at least 1990 but has proven either difficult to detect, difficult to resolve or prone to being overlooked entirely.
Keene Digital Media Server XSS
Test ID: 5453
Category: Server Side Scripts
The remote host runs Keene digital media server, a web server used to share digital information.
The version being used is vulnerable to multiple cross-site scripting attacks that allows an attacker to steal the cookies of users of this site.
Impact: Allows an attacker to steal the cookies of users of this site.
Solution: Upgrade to the latest version of this software
CVE:
https://vuldb.com/?id.90827
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php
https://packetstormsecurity.com/0408-exploits/
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The Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS is prone to false positive reports by most vulnerability assessment solutions. AVDS is alone in using behavior based testing that eliminates this issue. For all other VA tools security consultants will recommend confirmation by direct observation. In any case Penetration testing procedures for discovery of Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS produces the highest discovery accuracy rate, but the infrequency of this expensive form of testing degrades its value. The ideal would be to have pentesting accuracy and the frequency and scope possibilities of VA solutions, and this is accomplished only by AVDS.
http://securitytracker.com/id/1011156
The secret killer of VA solution value is the false positive. There was an industry wide race to find the most vulnerabilities, including Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS ,and this resulted in benefit to poorly written tests that beef up scan reports by adding a high percentage of uncertainty. This may have sold a lot of systems some years ago, but it also stuck almost all VA solutions with deliberately inaccurate reporting that adds time to repairs that no administrator can afford. Beyond Security did not participate in this race to mutually assured destruction of the industry and to this day produces the most accurate and actionable reports available.
Vulnerabilities in Keene Digital Media Server XSS is a Medium risk vulnerability that is also high frequency and high visibility. This is the most severe combination of security factors that exists and it is extremely important to find it on your network and fix it as soon as possible.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=media
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Only hours before U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned a global deal to halt dangerous and destructive climate change, mayors from some of Canada's largest cities were already planning to move forward without him.
The mayor of Quebec's largest city, speaking at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Big City Mayors' Caucus in Ottawa on June 1, dealt with severe flooding in his province throughout the month of May. Scientists say floods are becoming more extreme due to the impacts of climate change.
Their mayors' address took place roughly three hours before Trump appeared outside the White House to declare his withdrawal from the landmark Paris climate accord.
Reacting to Trump's imminent withdrawal, Coderre said it was more important than ever that cities, provinces and the federal government "stick together" to address climate action effectively.


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Leap Year Resolutions. We're making it a thing.
Where in the air do you want to be by February 29, 2020?
Maybe you want to be on a championship 4-way team? Have your tandem rating? Open a new DZ? Get your P-5? Be on the next head-down world record? Organize the next head-down world record? Your BASE wingsuit videos to hit a million views in 32 hours? To still be alive?
Selected responses will be printed in the Leap Year 2016 issue of Blue Skies Mag and may be edited for clarity, length and/or formatting. Comment with your name exactly as you would like it printed. You can also email responses to me at lara@blueskiesmag.com.
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Q: How to support multipart/form-data and application/json by a same method spring boot Rest I have a POST method that needs to support both multipart/form-data and application/json.
i.e. consumes = { MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE }
When I'm supporting Multipart request, I need a multipart file and a multipart json which can be obtained by declaring as below:
Line 1-> @RequestPart("file") MultipartFile file, @RequestPart("jsonString") InputJsonVO inputJsonVO
Similarly when supporting an application/json, I need to accept the whole body as a Json content:
Line 2 -> @RequestBody InputJsonVO inputJsonVO
It works fine when we have either line 1 or line 2, but not both in the same method as parameters.
`@PostMapping(path = "/multipart", consumes = { MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE,
            MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE })
    public String getMessage(@RequestPart(required=false, name="file") MultipartFile file, @RequestPart(required=false, name="jsonString") InputJsonVO inputJsonVO,
            @RequestBody(required=false) InputJsonVO inputJsonVO2
            )`

With this method declaration if I send a POST request:
POST /multipart HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
content-type: application/json
Content-Length: 335

<A Valid Json>

This works fine.
But when I sent a POST request as below from postman, it doesn't work:
POST /multipart HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
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Lewes Book Bargain: The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean
Right then. Time to try and clear the decks a bit, because next week Existential Ennui will be dedicated to two authors; one of them because his new novel is published next week, and the other because... well, he's got links to the first one and I've got a couple of recently bought books of his to blog about, and that's reason enough round these here parts. Yes, looming large in your future it's Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos Week, as Tuesday sees the arrival of Lehane's latest book, Moonlight Mile – at least, in the States, anyway; here in the UK it's not published till bloody February – and also I've got a stack of rather special recent Lehane acquisitions burning a hole in, er, the shelf, or whatever the literary equivalent of burning a hole in one's pocket is, and they're directly related to Moonlight Mile; plus I've got those Pelecanos ones I mentioned. So next week it's ahoy Lehane! And, er, put 'er there, Pelecanos! And beyond that, there's more to come on Donald Westlake (as ever), Ross Thomas (some crackers there), and some more small press comics stuff too.
But first, I've got a clutch of recent Lewes Book Bargains to catch up on, all bagged in various Lewes charity shops, mostly dating from the 1970s (the books, not the shops, although the interiors of the shops might suggest otherwise...), and including a couple of real doozies. Not sure this one qualifies as one of those, however:
A UK hardback first edition of The Way to Dusty Death by Alistair MacLean, published by Collins in 1973. Now, I'm not necessarily saying it's rubbish – I haven't, after all, even read it yet – but I was thoroughly amused by this string of posts on a motoring message board, which I stumbled across when researching the book. It's always fascinating to read the thoughts of specialist nerds when a writer or filmmaker or whoever dares to venture into their particular area of expertise; I've been guilty of this kind of picky response myself, I'm sure, but hopefully I've never got quite so irate as some of these silly sods. Opinions on MacLean's novel from message board regulars range from exasperation that the author made the apparently fundamental error of believing that "GP cars were fitted both with speedometers and headlights" (er...) to an artistic appraisal of the book as being "TOTAL KRAPPP!!!!" A nice, balanced assessment there.
And actually that's fairly representative of message boards in general. Almost invariably they're forums for backbiting and bitching and nastiness, and when they're not they're either so over-moderated that any potentially constructive criticism is effectively neutered, or so bland and nice it's like wandering into a Hare Krishna AGM. But anyway, The Way to Dusty Death may not be one of MacLean's better-liked books – even one of the main fan sites only scores it six out of ten – but I think we can hazard it's a bit better than the exhaust fume-addled folk on that message board maintain. It's about skullduggery in the world of Grand Prix motor racing, which, being a sometime fan of Formula One, doesn't sound too bad to me.
There's no credit on the dustjacket for the design or image, but there is a signature on the back flap: John Constable. Which, I'm sure you can imagine, makes researching it pretty much impossible. But no matter; with my ongoing interest in British thriller writers, Alistair MacLean is an author I've been wanting to check out for a while (I have an abiding love of Where Eagles Dare, the film he wrote the screenplay for and the novel of simultaneously), and a Formula One-focused thriller seems as good a place as any to do just that.
Labels: Alistair MacLean, book collecting, book fairs, cover design, first edition, Lewes, thrillers
Paul 30 October 2010 at 09:38
If I remember rightly, this came from MacLean's friendship with James Hunt - but whatever you do, avoid the godawful TV movie version of it which makes an adequate MacLean novel into something utterly dire...
Louis XIV, 'The Sun King' (a.k.a. Nick Jones) 30 October 2010 at 13:02
Righto, consider that warning heeded.
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Media Hype and Vested Claims Need Addressing
19 March 2008, at 12:00am
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The media must understand the facts before it slates coastal industries such as the salmon farming. This was the message from Gerry Furney, mayor of Port McNeill, speaking at the ninth Annual Positive Aquaculture Awareness Awards in Campbell River.
In his speech, reported in Canada's West Coaster, he said that BC's salmon farming industry was being covered by a dark media cloud. The anti-aquaculture campaign had fostered favour with the press by using exaggerated claims about the safety of farmed fish, the sector's impact on the environment and its effects on the health of wild fish stocks.
"Many media people have been seduced into an anti-industry attitude. There are, sadly, only a few media people that understand just how our economy works," he said.
Solid Ethics
BC's 30 year old aquaculture sector was founded on sensible practice, expertise and good husbandry. It was subject to government regulations and controls and implemented strict protocols, said Mr Furney. It had become an integral part of the regions economy and thousands of citizens depended on it for jobs, security and a way of life. Unfortunately, those who criticise the business do not live in the area and have little to lose from is demise.
"I'm surprised that some of our brightest media people are not researching the motives behind the campaigns. When multi-millions of dollars are being spent to beat up on the people of the coastal communities and on the healthiest food available, one wonders who or what is behind it? Is there a writer or researcher out there who could pin this down?" he questioned.
Mr Furney noted that many of those funding 'de-marking' campaigns had vested interests in large foundations - some of which were pumping money into the semi-wild salmon industry in Alaska. Such organisations have spent millions of dollars denigrating BC farmed salmon and that had to be questioned, he said.
Other elements of his speech targeted exaggerated claims about contaminants in farmed fish, to discourage consumption of a food which was rich Omega 3 fatty acids. He also highlighted the Sea Lice issue, and said that critics were using every tool available to try to lay the blame on aquaculture for its very existence.
He commented a recent review that predicted that the pink salmon runs in the Broughton area would be extinct within four years. He said the Pacific Salmon Forum, which, was one of the funders for the research, did not support the predictions. The Forum also noted that all the field researchers actually noted that over 80 per cent of the wild salmon smolts migrating out of the Broughton inlets in the spring of 2007 had no lice on them whatsoever.
Also pink runs in Broughton have historically fluctuated from year to year and was unfair to blame these fluctuations on salmon farming. Factors such as salinity changes in estuary waters, predation, harvesting levels and spawning success also had an impact.
Worthy of note is the fact that some of the largest runs of pinks have occurred over the years since salmon farming began.
"As the mayor of a resource-based community for many years, I have become very much aware of the challenges that confront us. I greatly appreciate the work that you do in this very important and promising industry for our province," said Mr Furney. "I urge you to stand up and be counted where, how and when it matters. The bad guys will win if you don't speak out, individually and collectively."
To view the speech in full click here.


This year our new starters have all received a golden ticket to welcome them to the school and to invite them to their transition afternoons.
Our new starters are at the centre of this process and we wanted to create a way to involve them as much as possible. The golden ticket is a way to remind the children of all the fun they have ahead and to promote talk at home about everything school will bring.
At the first starter session, we welcome parents to stay with their child for all or part of the session. Every child is different and may need more or less input and support than others.
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WEF Kigali: Rwanda bids for deeper integration
'Most African countries have debt levels that are manageable' IMF Africa head
Tarek Sultan, CEO and vice chairman of Agility
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Rice farming central to Sierra Leone diversification bid
Boosting rice production in order to cut import bills and create jobs is a central pillar of Sierra Leone's new national development plan. Julian Lahai Samboma reports.
The government of Sierra Leone, which marks its first year in office in April, has made increased rice production one of the key pillars of its development strategy, with hopes of achieving self-sufficiency in the staple food in "the shortest possible time".
In addition to the $34m set aside in this year's budget to support the cultivation of rice and other food crops, the government recently signed a $12m financing agreement with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) that will channel funding and other support to smallholders.
This scheme will provide assistance to those engaged in the production of cash crops like cocoa and coffee.
President Julius Maada Bio pledged during last year's election campaign that he would make agriculture, especially rice production, a major priority.
"We are going to charge forward with the pledges – free quality education and agriculture – and deliver on our promises," he reiterated.
Sierra Leone's economy is essentially agrarian, with upwards of 75% of its 7.5m people employed in agriculture.
Approximately 70% of the youth population are unemployed or underemployed, and policymakers believe that agriculture could help to solve the problem.
Since 53% of the workforce of 3m is made up of women, the government believes that a coherent strategy will also benefit this traditionally disadvantaged group.
From the 1950s until the mid-1970s the country was an exporter of rice.
Today, it is a net importer of the crop, putting a strain on scarce foreign exchange. In a situation where revenues from cash crops like cocoa and coffee cannot cover the food import bill, the result has been worsening trade and balance of payments figures.
UNCTAD figures reveal that in 2009/10, food imports (as a percentage of total commodity imports) amounted to $151m (32%), rising to $387m (60%) in 2014/15. In 2017, rice alone accounted for 15%, with a spend of $190m.
According to Tamba Lamina, Sierra Leone's high commissioner in London, the problem will be tackled by the government's integrated agricultural policy, part of a new five-year, $8bn national development plan unveiled by the president in February:
"We believe that by halving (the import bill), or eliminating importing rice, the foreign exchange that is saved can go into developing other industries".
The measures being spearheaded, in partnership with the World Bank, IFAD and private sector companies, are intended to increase the mechanisation of agriculture, promote research and development of improved varieties of rice, cocoa and coffee, and enhance livestock production.
Sceptics say the plan, endorsed by the IMF and the World Bank, is overly reliant on private sector participation in a country that struggles to attract investment.
Total private sector investment in rice production is relatively low, estimated at less than $500m.
There are a limited number of investors, including a Chinese-based consortium, China Hunan – which has signed a deal to cultivate 35,000 hectares – and smaller players like the West African Rice Company, Sewa Farms and Lion Mountain Agriculture, the latter a conduit for venture capitalists.
Yet there is much to do if other companies are to be attracted.
"The investment we have seen so far is a good start," says a government source. "But it is still a long way short of what this country needs to meet our self-sufficiency goals. We need up to three times that level."
Two-pronged approach
Would the government step in to pick up the slack if private sector investment could not provide the jobs or resources needed for development?
For instance, would the government set up a state rice farm to create jobs and feed the nation?
"What the government is actually doing is empowering people in the rural areas, bringing in mechanised farming, giving them the sort of income in terms of short-term loans in order for them to develop agricultural land," says Lamina.
"But it has to be a joint approach.
No government in any developing country can carry the burden of the whole nation without the private sector stepping in… If we have the right laws, people can come and invest and our people can benefit from it.
So it's a two-pronged approach; government is doing its own, in terms of empowering the rural communities, but we also need private sector investment.
With the right regulation, they can come in, they can assist. It's a win-win situation, they get their profits and we get our benefits as well."
Towards food self-sufficiency
Sierra Leoneans hope that Bio's reforms will lead them towards food self-sufficiency.
The initiative is part of the government's aim to diversify away from an economy overly dependent on mining – including gold, diamonds, iron ore, bauxite and rutile.
Rampant gold and diamond smuggling, as well the cessation of iron ore mining due to falling prices and the Ebola outbreak of 2014-16, served to reinforce the danger of a one-track economy.
The marine and tourism industry have also been targeted for a revamp, while agro-based industries are being encouraged to add value.
Julius Maada Bio
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An article by George Dvorsky on gizmodo.com - Rare Portable Paleolithic Art Depicts a Mysterious Scene Involving Birds and Humans - reports on the discovery and analysis in Europe of a rare artefact of portable rock art.
Dating back more than 12,000 years, this rare example of prehistoric rock art features a scene involving birds and humans.
The artefact, from the Late Upper Paleolithic, is attracting attention because of its portable nature, the fauna represented - avian rather than the more usual fauna - and a scene depicted rather than individual figures. Details of the discovery were published recently in the science journal L'Anthropologie (details below).
The 30-centimeter-wide limestone artefact was discovered in 2011 at the Hort de la Bequera archaeological site in Spain. Despite 14 years of continuous excavations, this relic was the only art piece of its kind to be discovered at the site. The artist would have used a flint tool to etch the clean and clear lines into the limestone.
There are five distinct motifs, with (from left to right) possibly two human figures, one large bird, an indeterminate figure, and possibly an avian chick.
The authors of the new study, led by Inés Domingo from the University of Barcelona, are analysing the five distinct motifs by visual inspections of the piece, and by comparing the art to previously known representations in European Palaeolithic art. The large bird is likely a crane, due to biological similarities with the species and other artworks.
As to the meaning or significance of the scene, the researchers can only speculate, but they think it may have something to do with both hunting and motherhood. The bird motif may have had both an economic and symbolic role.
This paper reports the discovery of a new example of portable art in North-eastern Iberia dating to the Late Upper Palaeolithic (12.250 ± 60 BP). The piece is analysed in relation to the European Palaeolithic art assemblage to determine its significance and how it contributes to our understandings of Palaeolithic artistic practices. Both the motifs depicted (birds and humans) and the patterns of composition (a narrative scene) are unusual in Palaeolithic assemblages. In addition, this new find contributes to filling a geographic gap in the artistic record as evidence of Palaeolithic art is rare in Catalonia. The anatomical features of one of the birds suggest that it is a crane, a species that has been depicted in a limited number of sites, as summarized in this paper. Moreover, there are only three known example of birds and humans interacting in a narrative scene in Palaeolithic art. Exhibiting innovations in media, subject matter and compositional norms, this new find has the potential to change the classic definition of European Upper Palaeolithic art and integrate the region in the artistic trends circulating along Mediterranean Iberia during the Upper Magdalenian.
This brings to mind another mysterious prehistoric rock art depiction involving a bird and a human - 'The Scene of the Dead Man' in Lascaux (shown above).


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Meet our cat. She is all sorts of hilarious. At our old place, she was not a happy cat. But here, because we are able to open the windows and keep the blinds open, even at night, she's able to do what she was born to do – be a cat. Enjoy the fresh air and keep an eye on things, especially at night. These are a few shots I snagged of her last night during a rare moment of her hanging out in the window. She usually sits on a table we have right next to the window for her.
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I had an absolutely wonderful weekend and am thrilled to report that I stayed away from the internet and my computer all weekend long.
It was difficult and I really did have withdrawals – the worst being first thing in the morning when I took the dogs out – because I usually check my email on my PDA while I'm outside with them so I have a general idea of what my tasks are for the day.
I'll post a more detailed account later as the girls are in the floor playing and I want to get down there with them.
At least I didn't spontaneously combust!
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I have good news and even better news but first we have to take a detour through bad news valley.
Last Thursday, the pediatrician phoned to let us know that the thyroid portion of the PKU newborn screen had come back abnormal. She wanted us in her office that afternoon to speak with us and get additional tests completed to rule out congenital hypothyroidism. The rush was because the longer Congenital hypythyroidism goes untreated, the higher the risk of mental developmental delays and other delays.
We went in and she explained to us the tests and we also checked his weight. In a little under two weeks, he went from 12lbs 7oz all the way up to 14lbs 1oz!! The lab was next door and he had his blood drawn. Then we waited.
Three of the five tests came back with normal results by the next morning. I cried.
This past Tuesday I took him for his original weight check appointment (he gained another 8oz by the way!) and the ped had the other two results. They too were normal. The endocrinologist does not need to see him and we go back in three weeks to follow up.
We are no longer breastfeeding and he is completely on formula. After everything i went through with Charlotte and my PPD, I know my limits and pumping or troubleshooting why nursing wasn't working is beyond my scope this time around. He did nurse yesterday morning and I will continue to let him nurse as I need him to or as he wants to until my supply has ceased. Even when I'm giving him a bottle we are cuddly and have eye contact. It doesn't matter what goes into his stomach or how it gets there. All that matters is that we're thriving, happy, and healthy.
We are all of those and so much more!
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Our Civic Engagement work has been going well so far this year, we have been attending the local Naturalization Ceremonies with our community partners registering new citizens to vote after taking their Oath for Citizenship in Campbell, CA. Our goal is to register 3,000 by the end of the year and are in the process of growing our numbers over the next three quarters. This fall is when we expect things will begin to pick up as we begin to have the primary elections for 2018 begin their campaigns across the state and country.
If interested in joining us to help register more voters please contact Michael Casas at Asian law Alliance.


Red Bull KTM Factory Racing's Marvin Musquin has addressed being snubbed for a spot on Team France's Motocross of Nations (MXoN) squad, revealing he was prepared to contest the 7 October event at RedBud in the United States of America.
In a bizarre decision, defending champions France elected to choose Gautier Paulin (Rockstar Energy Husqvarna), Dylan Ferrandis (Monster Energy Yamalube Star Yamaha) and Romain Febvre (Monster Energy Yamaha) despite Musquin currently being in contention for the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship.
The French Federation of Motorcycling has not revealed why it decided to bypass the former world champion, who has been racing on the AMA pro circuit since 2011.
Chamberlain Trophy contender Team Belgium recently announced its squad, confirming Clement Desalle (Monster Energy Kawasaki), Jago Geerts (Kemea Yamaha) and Jeremy van Horebeek (Monster Energy Yamaha) will represent the country. New Zealand revealed its team last month, while Australia and Team USA are still to list their squads for the prestigious event.


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